Assistant Manager - Primary Logistics

Tataconsumer; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Tata Consumer Products Ltd. in India seeks an Assistant Manager – Primary Logistics to oversee end-to-end rake handling across CFA locations, ensuring cost efficiency and on-time material movement. You will coordinate with CFAs, surveyors, vendors and internal teams to maintain governance and smooth operations.

The role focuses on budgeting, rate negotiations, and process optimization, with travel as needed and a leadership mindset for improving logistics performance within the TCPL framework.

Qualifications

• Strong expertise in railway rake handling and logistics for bulk commodities.
• Proven ability to negotiate with contractors, CFAs, surveyors and vendors.
• Sound commercial sense to manage costs, contracts, budgets, and claims.
• Ability to coordinate multi-stakeholder teams across railways, vendors and internal groups.
• Experience in governance and end-to-end rake movement processes.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and manage CFA-wise annual rake handling budgets, ensuring cost visibility and control.
• Lead rake handling rate negotiations and contract finalization to achieve cost competitiveness and savings.
• Monitor and optimize Demurrage & Wharfage Charges through proactive tracking, validation, and recovery.
• Evaluate CFA cost claims, surveyor costs, and vendor invoices to ensure financial governance and accuracy.
• Maintain accurate rate masters and provide inputs for material cost accruals and budgeting.
• Coordinate with Planning, Procurement, Delivery teams, CFAs, surveyors, and vendors to ensure smooth material movement.
• Minimize delays in rake unloading, transportation, and warehouse receipt processes.
• Ensure timely availability of rake documentation to support execution.
• Resolve operational escalations impacting service levels and material availability.
• Administer FOIS accounts and ensure accurate visibility of rake movements and DCWC liabilities.
• Drive adherence to contractual obligations, operating procedures, and governance requirements.

Skills

Railway rake handling

Logistics operations

Bulk commodity movement

Contract negotiations

Cost control

Vendor coordination

Tools

FOIS

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Designation
Assistant Manager - Primary Logistics

Function
Product Supply Organization Location
Bangalore Reporting To
Deputy General Manager - Primary Logistics

Job Description

Tata Consumer Products Ltd.

About the Job: Assistant Manager – Primary Logistics

Function: Primary Logistics

Reporting To: Deputy General Manager – Primary Logistics

At Tata Consumer Products Ltd, we stand #Forbetter – Planet, Sourcing, Nutrition, Communities. And #ForBetter Opportunities …. Here’s an exciting one!

How does this Job align to our Strategy?

At the core of Tata Consumer Products' business approach lie six strategic pillars that serve as the foundation for its growth and success: Strengthen core & accelerate our growth business, Build on new opportunities, Drive execution excellence everyday, Create future ready organization, Drive Digital and Innovation and Embed Sustainability.

This job opportunity closely aligns with one of these key strategic pillars, which is Strengthening & Accelerating our Core Business. The role involves Demand Planning for certain product categories in TCPL India business. The job aims to bring business value by driving a key value component for the logistics function.

Where do you come in as?

Executive Director & COO

MD & CEO

SVP – Planning & Logistics

Director – Primary Logistics

This job is at N-5 level (N corresponds to CEO’s level)

Geography: India

Direct reports: NA

Complexity of the role (Optional): High

Will this job require travel (Y/N): Yes

Matrix Reports: NA

Type of Role: Individual Contributor

Primary Stakeholders (Optional):

What are the Key Deliverables in this role?

• Prepare and manage CFA-wise annual rake handling budgets, ensuring cost visibility and control.
• Lead rake handling rate negotiations and contract finalization to achieve cost competitiveness and savings.
• Monitor and optimize Demurrage & Wharfage Charges (DCWC) through proactive tracking, validation, and recovery.
• Evaluate CFA cost claims, surveyor costs, and vendor invoices to ensure financial governance and accuracy.
• Maintain accurate rate masters and provide inputs for material cost accruals and budgeting.

Customer Service

• Ensure uninterrupted availability of salt stocks through timely rake execution and clearance.
• Coordinate with Planning, Procurement, Delivery teams, CFAs, surveyors, and vendors to ensure smooth material movement.
• Minimize delays in rake unloading, transportation, and warehouse receipt processes.
• Ensure timely availability of rake documentation to support execution.
• Resolve operational escalations impacting service levels and material availability.

Internal Processes

• Manage end-to-end rake handling operations across CFA locations from rake arrival till warehouse unloading.
• Administer FOIS accounts and ensure accurate visibility of rake movements and DCWC liabilities.
• Drive adherence to contractual obligations, operating procedures, and governance requirements.
• Monitor surveyor performance, quantity verification processes, and loss control mechanisms.
• Maintain robust documentation, approvals, contracts, and compliance records for all rake-related activities.

Innovation & Learning

• Benchmark rake handling practices, rates, and operating models against external industries (cement, fertilizer, bulk commodities).
• Identify opportunities for process standardization and cost optimization across rake locations.
• Leverage FOIS data and operational analytics to improve planning and decision-making.
• Build strong market intelligence on labor, transportation, and handling trends.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to reduce losses, cycle time, and operational inefficiencies.

What are the Critical success factors for the Role?

• Strong expertise in railway rake handling, logistics operations, and bulk commodity movement.
• Proven negotiation capability for handling contractors, CFAs, surveyors, and local stakeholders.
• Strong commercial acumen to manage costs, contracts, budgets, and claim settlements.
• Ability to manage complex multi-stakeholder coordination across railways, vendors, CFAs, and internal teams.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to drive operational efficiency and cost control.

What are the Desirable success factors for the Role?

• Working knowledge of FOIS and railway freight processes.
• Understanding of supply chain finance, accruals, and logistics costing mechanisms.
• Experience in vendor performance management and service-level governance.
• Capability to leverage data and market insights for benchmarking and process improvement.
• Strong communication and influencing skills to manage disputes and drive stakeholder alignment.

TCPL Growth Mindset and Behaviors

We are obsessed about keeping Consumers & Customers first in our hearts – that’s why we are here !

We are trailblazers in executing with Excellence … Together as One Team !

We take Ownership of our business …delivering value for our Stakeholders .. no Compromises !

We are Open to Continuously improving … Continuously innovating … For Better !

We live & breathe our Tata Code of Conduct

About Us: At Tata Consumer, we stand ‘For Better.’

Tata Consumer Products is a focused consumer products company uniting the principal food and beverage interests of the Tata Group under one umbrella. Our brands embody our purpose of ‘For Better ‘through the value they deliver to consumers with a focus on innovation, health and wellness, convenience and premiumisation. The Company’s portfolio of products includes tea, coffee, water, RTD, salt, pulses, spices, ready-to-cook and ready-to-eat offerings, breakfast cereals, snacks, mini meals, herbal supplements and vending business. Few of our key brands include Tata Tea, Tetley, Eight O’Clock Coffee, Tata Coffee Grand, Himalayan Natural Mineral Water, Tata Copper+ and Tata Gluco+, Tata Salt, Tata Sampann, Tata Soulfull, Organic India and Chings. In India, Tata Consumer Products has a reach of over 200 million households, giving it an unparalleled ability to leverage the Tata brand in consumer products.

The Company has a consolidated annual turnover of ~Rs. 20,290 Crs with operations in India and International markets. For more information please visit www.tataconsumer.com